CVE-2016-0883 describes a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) Ops Manager versions prior to 1.5.14 and 1.6.9. The flaw stems from the use of a shared cookie-encryption key across different customer installations, enabling remote attackers to bypass session authentication by leveraging knowledge of this key from another instance. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability allows for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.5.13CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:operations_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:operations_manager:1.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:operations_manager:1.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:operations_manager:1.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:operations_manager:1.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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